jodeeslt.bsky.social
AuDHD Speech & Language Therapist - Research student - Teacher - Trauma survivor - Co-founder Neurodivergent SLT Network - Disability justice - Keynote speaker - Poet - Blogger - Views my own.
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I totally agree. The patients are taken more seriously and less likely to be mislabelled as “attention seeking” in my experience after I have delivered autism training in MH wards.
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Ha! It looks in pretty good condition too… for a piece of “tech” that won’t have been used for at least 15 years
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I think you and I have both achieved well beyond our expectations this year, despite what our perfectionism is telling us.
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Love the lights, hate the noise. Love spending time with others but need my space. Love giving gifts but hate the pressure of buying and choosing.
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Detentions do nothing. They make our kids feel powerless. As a teacher I always felt they were utterly pointless and hated being trapped in a system that rewards uniformity, compliance and ultimately strips kids of autonomy and power over their lives.
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Totally agree. Making home less fun is taking away their only safe space to be themselves and to experience positive nurturing and trusting relationships. Do we really want school to be the ‘better of 2 evils’?
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Thank you so much Caroline. We’ve had lots of speaking engagements to get the word out there and I’m starting a research study in February which will lead onto a PhD to further our cause
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Great to see you here. Are you part of the autistic doctors international network. Love the research they are doing.
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@ndsltuk.bsky.social are now on BlueSky - you can sign up for our newsletter and see our publications here Http://linktr.ee/ndsltuk
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Great to see you on here ⭐️
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I’m just starting out in academia and have a fab team around me who want to learn from marginalised groups 😊 thank you for being open about your own fight. We need this validation
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I want to unpick this feeling of unfairness. Is it really driven by the thought that we will be unfairly advantaged or is it that they realise that they would benefit from it to? If that is the case, then we should spend more time making our workplaces more accessible - normalise accessibility 4 all
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Similarly, I’ve been thinking about the mechanism that drive the “it’s not fair” that we can have adjustments because of the idea that it gives us an advantage. I’m tired of being the one to always have to convince others that my needs are real and describing how I’m disadvantaged…. 1/
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Yes, I think there is. This is something I want to explore when I do my PhD. Not so much looking at the in-fighting but at the mechanisms that drive it.
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Perhaps. 2 years ago I was considering making our ND peer support group an autistic only group for that very reason but I’m so glad I changed my mind to make the group more inclusive because I have learned more about myself than if we’d been more exclusive. Bullying vs self-preservation…?
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Glad you made it over 🧡❤️♥️
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Also Monique Botha has written a lot about stigma - I know they are well versed in power and privilege
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www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/wea...
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Here’s a couple of starting places aeon.co/essays/why-t...
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Hi, do you guys have an ND peer support group yet? I know you have AbleOT but there is something about ND that just start to thrive when they all come together 🧡♥️❤️ Our SaLT peer support group has been a life saver for many people. If you get one going, I’d be happy to do a talk or workshop
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I hear you. We have hidden a lot of stuff from ourselves for so long that we are genuinely surprised but also not surprised when we unlearn
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Please add me to this list if you have room
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I think you are probably right about subjective experience. Brain studies show autistic bodies have physiological responses but the awareness parts of our brain either don't flash up or only with a very weak signal. I now do a body scan to check if I'm feeling pain / sensory discomfort
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Can you add me please. AuDHD researcher researching neurodivergent speech and language therapists
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That's a good point. The post where I posted my first piece of informal research is still getting hits and it makes up part of the research impact
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Hello!
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Brilliant. I've been trying to find better pictures. I ended up doing my own- using pictures that the child glues on to paper. Gives them some control and means we can build up the picture in chunks and focus on one thing at a time. Better for monotropic brains
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This is also a useful document pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
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if you're looking at speech sounds, its worth booking time with an interpreter to create a list of simple objects with the target phonemes and then you can source some pictures or objects for it.
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If you can find something that represents their cultural dress, rather than 1960’s housewife. There's a couple of pictures in the FAST that can be used to get a conversation sample. There is also picture scenes in the TALC -
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I always take an interpreter and get them to tell me what the child was missing when they speak. Or if some of the speach sounds are unusual or atypical of that age group. The RENFREW pics or a picture book or the cookie theft type pictures are sort of thing….
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This might resonate with you jodeesimpson.wixsite.com/glitchedscri...